Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, stands underneath the huge rock overhang at the site of Step House, a cliff dwelling at Mesa Verde National Park. He holds his left arm straight up to touch the rock overhang. The site has not been excavated. A man...

A group of men work to excavate a room in the Bone Awl House, a cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde National Park. Deric Nusbaum, right, helps them in one of his first excavations under his stepfather Jesse's supervision. Several rooms have been excavated...

Step House, a cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde National Park, lies under a massive rock wall. Shown before excavation, piles of rocks and mounds of dirt cover the location of the pithouses. The remains of a rock wall lie at the base of the rock...

Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, uses a brush to clean the dirt from a pottery water jar found in the ruins of the Bone Awl House, a cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde National Park. Deric wears a large sweater, a wool hat and gloves and a respirator over...

Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, stands among the ruins of Spruce Tree House, one of the largest cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde National Park. Wearing shorts and a Boy Scouts of America shirt, he holds a copy of an atlatl in his left hand. An atlatl...

Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, wearing shorts and a Boy Scouts of America shirt, climbs up a wood ladder from one of the kivas of Spruce Tree House, one of the largest cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park. The remains of several walls with...

Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, pulls on the tail of a ring- tailed cat that clings to a broom he holds in the air. In his book "Deric in Mesa Verde," Deric describes taking "dandy photographs" of a ring- tailed cat, possibly this one, that made...

Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, wearing shorts and a Boy Scouts of America shirt, leans out of a window opening at Spruce Tree House, one of the largest cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde National Park. The top of the opening is framed with a piece of...

Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, sits with his legs dangling over a ledge near Nordenskiold's Ruin No. 12, a cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde National Park. He leans with his back against one of the remaining walls. The cliff dwelling is built into the...

Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, stands at a distance leaning against one of the remaining walls of Nordenskiold's Ruin No. 12 at Mesa Verde National Park. The cliff dwelling is built into the side of a sheer cliff.

A ring-tail cat clings to the end of a broom that is held in the air. In his book "Deric in Mesa Verde," Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, tells of taking some "dandy photographs" of a ring-tail cat, possibly the one shown here, that made its way...

Two men hoist Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, over the ledge of a steep cliff, possibly Knife Edge, in Mesa Verde National Park. Deric has a rope tied around him under his arms. The massive cliff continues up from where the men are pulling....

A group of men rides horses down a snowy road in Mesa Verde National Park. The road is built into a steep hillside. The rider on the far right is probably Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson. Pine trees line the rocky hillside.

Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, is lowered on a rope over the edge of a cliff in Mesa Verde National Park. A man sits on the ledge above where Deric dangles and helps lower him with the rope. The rope continues up the cliff behind the man. A road,...

Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, dangles on a rope over the side of a cliff in Mesa Verde National Park. A man sits on the top ledge of the cliff and lowers Deric down with the rope. The rope continues up the ledge behind the man. A road, possibly...

Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, stands between two pack horses in Navajo Canyon. Three men stand with Deric. The man on the far left holds a large pot in his hand, possibly an antiquity excavated from a ruin for the Mesa Verde National Park...

Nusbaum, Jesse L. (Jesse Logan)

[between 1926 and 1927?]

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